Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-31
OUR DEAD HEROES.

| -hAfs Ul1Vef N1ncneSIef'B MI un1ucen Gin-A Touching Tribute Paid IT. The Friend of The Soldier, The Lat Thomas R. Trowbridge-His Grav
 Beautifully Decorated-The After noon Programme At St. Bernart
 Cemetery-The Day In Derby, Yves Haven And Branferd.
 Upon the graves in our city's cemeteries
 of men who died to save the Union tn,
 comrades who survive yesterday place. bright flowers and garlands as memorials o 1 the sacrifice.
 E The weather proved suspicious and tn
 city wore it's holiday look. The old. Stat House was the depot for the reception of tn
 floral tributes, and hundreds of children re paired thither, bearing floral burdens. Il
 the upper hall half hundred ladies received
 assorted and arranged the gifts. A list of thos
 donated will be found on our fourth page
 At the appointed time the G. A. R. veteran
 were drawn up in line in front of the Stat
 House and received each his allotment O. l flowers. At ten o'clock the different detail 1 took cars for the various cemeteries, and al
 eleven o'clock, at the preconcerted signal or
 the fire alarm bell, the decorating of ths | graves began.
 Hardly had the bell ceased tolling when
 the Trinity church chimes pealed forth ar
 excellent programme of tunes. The same
 In plan nosd of deco decorating, as eo,,os used
 There was no want of flowers. The people
 of the city responded most generously. The
 children and wives of the veterans brought l floral offerings with a great eagerness to
 honor the memory of those who have passed I to the silent majority. Among the first large floral donations received yesterday morning was a wagon load of choice cut flowers. A beautiful and touching ceremony took I place in the Grove street cemetery after the 1 graves of the soldiers had been decorated. The detail from Henry 0. Aerwin and Ad- miral Foote posts marched to the newly I made grave of Thomas R. Trowbridge, who was buried on Sunday afternoon, and com- pletely covered it with beautiful floral gifts a ! fitting tribute to the man who during his life ! time was the friend of the soldier. The diff ferent details, after the graves were decor ated, returned to their homes.
 AT ST. BERNARDS.
 Promptly at o'clock yesterday afternoon the various G. A. R. posts formed on the Green and marched behind the National band of Wallingford as follows:
 Admiral Foote post, sco men.
 Henry 2. Merwin post 100 men,
 Won Steinwer post, 40 men.
 Sons of Veterans. 75 men.
 They presented very neat appearance and showed by their steady marching that they Lad not forgotten the experience of years ago. 1n6 llO0 or mdrcQ was as FOLLOWS: From north end of Green to Elm, to Church street, to Congress avenue, to How ard avenue, to Columbus avenue, to Hedge street, to the cemetery. Arrived at the cem- etery the posts formed hollow square about the soldiers monument, which was very beautifully decorated with flowers. All the officers were invited to seats on the platform and listened to the following programme:
 l. Selection by the band.
 ,. Song by choir of one hundred boys from St. ! Patrlcks school.
 Hon. Joseph D. P1unkett then stepped for I ward and after short but eloquent speech | introduced Rev. Father Bray, the orator of | the day, who spoke as follows:
 Rev. Father Bray's Grafton.
 In the 37th chapter of the prophet Ezekiel l he describes with great force and sublimity l the wondrous vision of the resurrection of ! the face of the plain. And the Lord said to I him "Son of man, dost thou think these | bones shall live?" And he answered: 70, Lord God, thou knowest." And the Lord l God said to these bones: Behold will send spirit into you, and you shall live. Come spirit from the four winds, and blow upon these slain, and let them live again" And the spirit came into them and they lived; ! and they stood upon their feet an exceeding l great army.
 On an occasion like the present the multi Jude of differences political, religious, social, md I might add hereditary, ought to sink beneath the swelling wave of truth. There Ire waves of the sea, and there are waves of ruth, and there are waves of light; and as l fight is the most subtitle and mysterious ele- ! nent in physics, and is of such nature l hat when it strikes our atmosphere or i'm | oinges upon the retina of the human eye it becomes refracted, broken up, divided into ! different colors, so the light of the mind, which is truth, as soon as it touches our in- ellectual atmosphere, strikes our mental ! yision, suffers the same changes. What is I nore common than to see men, even men ! . gho are fast, firm friends, entertaining diff erent views on many subjects. What is :, Tanted in this world of ours is honest, pen, lightloving, truth-loVing hearts, nd then truth will exercise it's t, unctions with the same vigorous adherence 3 law which light observes in the growth { nd painting of even the most insignificant z 7eed or flower you let fall to-day on the raves of your brave citizen who died on the attlefeld. The father then paid high ompliment to the soldiers who had come ; acre to-day to decorate the graves and then ! v sked, Can we do any more for them than imply decorate or strew their humble c raves with flowers, choice flowers, sweet t nd beautiful emblems of the tender and .1 rdent sentiments of the heart? We come to- ay to make some atonement for the imper- Fl 'ction of history to lay on the grave of | B Ich individual soldier the tribute of loving IT Id grateful hearts to the memory Of those l. old valiant and intrepid men who gave their f yes to conquer slavery. N The history of the people has never been h ritten, neither has the history of the sol f h CTS of the millions who fell on the battle h dds of the world from Marathon to the aw- l ii l Moscow retreat, Waterloo and Gettysburg. n hat account does history give uss Here the o 'eaker made very touching allusion to the s. overs which he described as springing from n @ very earth which drank the blood of it's h 'roes. Continuing in thoughts of rare beauty ost felicitously expressed the speaker forced the line of thought he had IF ken, making an oration full of beauty Id power and doing full honor to the hour d the occasion.